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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsElectoral College must reject Trump unless he sells his business, top lawyers for Bush and Obama say
Electoral College must reject Trump unless he sells his business, top lawyers for Bush and Obama sayEthics lawyers for the last two presidents are in agreement.
Judd Legum Editor-In-Chief, ThinkProgress
Members of the Electoral College should not make Donald Trump the next president unless his sells his companies and puts the proceeds in a blind trust, according to the top ethics lawyers for the last two presidents.
Richard Painter, Chief Ethics Counsel for George W. Bush, and Norman Eisen, Chief Ethics Counsel for Barack Obama, believe that if Trump continues retain ownership over his sprawling business interests by the time the electors meet on December 19, they should reject Trump.
In an email to ThinkProgress, Eisen explained that the founders did not want any foreign payments to the president. Period. This principle is enshrined in Article 1, Section 9 of the Constitution, which bars office holders from accepting any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state.
https://thinkprogress.org/electoral-college-trump-top-lawyers-8a8b6e0ca916#.jxd2pfwak
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Electoral College must reject Trump unless he sells his business, top lawyers for Bush and Obama say (Original Post)
workinclasszero
Nov 2016
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lapfog_1
(29,205 posts)1. he can't sell his businesses
The loans made using those businesses as collateral would have to be repaid. He would be broke (actually in debt).
Moostache
(9,895 posts)2. I want to puke.
The fact that Americans are so fucking stupid on the aggregate is mind-numbing enough, but their collective sense of outrage for e-mails and bullshit while ignoring the truly consequential (and harmful) is staggering.
Stop the goddamn world, I want to get off.
no_hypocrisy
(46,117 posts)3. That won't influence Trump in the least.
Trump is taking marching orders from nobody.
doc03
(35,340 posts)4. They should but they won't n/t